Oelgart Isaac Compiler (6 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition. Covers have uneven fading to the edges. ; Copy #131 of 400.; 36 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Manila card cover stock, titled in black; stapled binding; approx. 4.0"x6.75"; 12pp; not illustrated; published in an edition of 700 unnumbered copies; printed by Richard Colby, Litchfield, Connecticut. Listings for the 57 books published by Van Nostrand between 1948 and 1964 with current prices (1983) quoted for fine copies in jackets; o/w scant on bibliographical information. A near fine copy and uncommon.…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1976). 1976 1st edition. 8vo stapled paperback (168 x 242mm). Ppxiv,36. B/w illustrations taken from old engravings. Grey card covers with flaps, front cover titled and illustrated in black. Edition limited to 400 numbered copies. Some fading to covers, stapled slightly rusty, but a very good copy. Numbered copy from an edition limited to 400 copies. The front cover is titled 'Falconry & Hawking Treatises 1575 - 1975.' "The scope of this checklist is to gather into one place the principal works of Falconry and Hawking, and furthermore those books and pamphlets that totally relate to the training of such birds as used in the sport. It is not meant to improve upon Harting, Thiebaud, Barber or any other bibliography, but to be used as a checklist of those books printed in the English language." The bibliography is divided into two parts, with the books which deal with training coming first and the seond part books of more general interest. Includes two indexes arranged by title and by author. .…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1976). 1976 1st edition. 8vo stapled paperback (168 x 242mm). Ppxiv,36. B/w illustrations taken from old engravings. Grey card covers with flaps, front cover titled and illustrated in black. Edition limited to 400 numbered copies. Some fading to covers but a very good copy. An un-numbered "complementary copy" inscribed by the compiler to Douglas G. Bush, with Bush's name-stamp to front cover. The front cover is titled 'Falconry & Hawking Treatises 1575 - 1975.' "The scope of this checklist is to gather into one place the principal works of Falconry and Hawking, and furthermore those books and pamphlets that totally relate to the training of such birds as used in the sport. It is not meant to improve upon Harting, Thiebaud, Barber or any other bibliography, but to be used as a checklist of those books printed in the English language." The bibliography is divided into two parts, with the books which deal with training coming first and the seond part books of more general interest. Includes two indexes arranged by title and by author. .…

Edition limited to 400 copies, 8vo, pp. xii, 36; frontispiece and several illustrations in the text ( 2 full page); original pictorial stiff gray wrappers printed in black; saddle stitched; light fading to extremities and a small stain on spine, otherwise a very good to near fine copy. With prospectus laid in.…

OELGART, Isaac J., compiler. FALCONRY AND HAWKING TREATISES PRINTED IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. (Newburyport, Massachusetts): New Mews press, 1976. 8vo. Wrappers. 36 pages. First edition. One of four hundred copies. "A checklist of preliminary sources with a list of related books of interest to falconers." An annotated list of forty-eight works printed between 1575 to 1975. Indexed. Fine.…